farrar
\fɐ.ʀˈaɾ\
The verdict
“farrar” is uncommon French (frequency #91,686 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,686
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fêter, célébrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-farrar · farrar · French
farrar · rank #91,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,686
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH explicables
Nearest frequency peer: explicables (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « farrar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- examineront
examineront
8,318 corpus weight
- excédait
excédait
8,317 corpus weight
- explicables
explicables
8,316 corpus weight
- farrar
farrar
8,315 corpus weight
- fatwas
fatwas
8,314 corpus weight
- fausta
fausta
8,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « farrar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | farrar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɐ.ʀˈaɾ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « farrar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
farrar is uncommon French at frequency #91,686 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \fɐ.ʀˈaɾ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fêter, célébrer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for farrar in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is farrar, spelled F-A-R-R-A-R.
Definition
- 1Fêter, célébrer.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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